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Originally Posted by mgburg
Does anyone HERE have an old fashioned stove-top perking coffee pot? The kind with the little cylindrical basket on a post...you fill the pot about 5/8ths full of cold water, about 4 scoops of your favorite flavor caffeine in the basket, put the top on the basket, lid on the pot and, put the stove on HIGH and put the pot in the center of the element and watch the coffee boil up and out the top of the tube and dribble down and over the ground in the basket and back into the bottom of the pot and it goes through the same routine over and over and over for about 5-9 minutes...to FINALLY end up as a hot, steamy cup of grounds-in-the-bottom-of-the-cup cup of coffee?
The only difference between that and a camp fire pot of coffee is the heating element...white-hot camp-fire logs or the electric element on the stove top (or gas burner)...
Personally, I like the smells of the outdoors and hot coals...  |
I use a percolator but it's an electric one. I think it makes better tasting coffee than a drip coffee maker and the grounds are minimal if you wet the basket prior to putting the coffee in. It's also essential to remove the basket before pouring any coffee.
Here's mine:
http://www.gogoods.com/product/FCP280?META=become-FCP280
I like the sound of a coffee percolator. It reminds me of Grandma's house, although she had a 15 cup percolator with a clear glass knob on top that you could see the coffee bubbling in.
